Sentence examples for theatrical affectation from inspiring English sources
But the playwright's bursts of phantasmagoria, though foiled by theatrical affectation, seem to demolish the concept of heaven as a convenient rationalization for a denied life on earth.
Here, Avedon is under no obligation to make his subjects look elegant, and some of the portraits are almost caricatures — photographic impressions that probe for every psychological weakness and theatrical affectation in the sitter's character.
No one likes to be preached at or lectured to, even though Campbell wants the meaning of his works to be open ended, It for Others can seem more like an academic Powerpoint lecture than an artwork, even though I take its tone as an almost poetic conceit, an almost theatrical affectation.
Ms. Benko is particularly enjoyable as a woman whose thwarted theatrical instincts have turned her into a walking mass of dramatic affectations.
The actress is in command of the haughty affectations, killer inflections and largesse of the play's most theatrical character.
After a brief flirtation with the gooey, gauzy affectations of Pictorialism, Bourke-White quickly settled into a hard-edged, theatrical style partaking of the machine-age esthetic of Precisionism.
These dancers lack affectation.
Affection becomes affectation.
Fad? Cinephile affectation?
Hypocrisy and affectation.
